Fireworks!
Festival for Saint Placidus, Messina, August 2, 1589: Fireworks Obelisk
Written by Filippo Gotho (Italian); printed by Fausto Bufalini (Italian), 1591
Source via the Metropolitan Museum of Art under a Creative Commons Open License.
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